廊坊2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测高二英语

1、Travel agencies claim they work in close______ with the local authorities to bring tourism back to its former glory.

A.reference B.company

C.sympathy D.cooperation

2、“Made in China 2025” initiative aims to transform China from a manufacturing giant into a world manufacturing power, ________ driven by innovation and emphasizes quality over quantity.

A.the one that B.one that C.one D.the one

3、It wasn't until I ______ took part in the activity that I understood the meaning of it.

A.actively B.personally

C.rarely D.normally

4、Wang Ping flashed a switch on a computer screen, and a table and some chairs rose___ the floor as if by magic.

A. from B. under     C. from under     D. from up

5、The stronger the________ is, the more quickly a man will learn a new skill. In other words, it is up to whether he has an interest in it.

A．motivation

B．ambition

C．effect

D．imagination

6、—These apples look really tasty.

—They ______! See the price $5.99 a pound. Very expensive, aren't they!

A.should B.might C.could D.would

7、The police had to________ force to enter the building because the criminal had locked the gate.

A．employ

B．empty

C．enlarge

D．enlighten

8、It is confirmed that a person can not be actually pleased if ___ he appreciates doing is ignored by the company as of no value.

A. when   B. that   C. what   D. where

9、According to the new rules, if a student ________ happen to damage something in the campus, he/she should report it those concerned immediately.

A. should    B. will    C. shall         D. would

10、Robert had a comfortable childhood, ______up in a pleasant house with a view of the sea.

A．grew

B．growing

C．grown

D．to grow

11、As is expected, AI is an area _______ China may appear as a leading force.

A. that B. where

C. which D. when

12、   volcanoes for many years, I am still amazed at their beauty as well as their potential to cause great damage.

A. To study B. Studying

C. Having studied D. Studied

13、________ for two days, Jessica managed to finish her project ahead of time.

A. To work       B. Worked

C. To be working   D. Having worked

14、We always keep  spare paper, in case we run out.

A.too much B.a number of C.plenty of D.a good many

15、The Chinese government has begun a campaign to_____________ the crazy housing market.

A.calm B.destroy

C.occupy D.reflect

16、— Why are you so upset, Doctor White?

— The project didn’t _________ as we expected. It was such a waste of time!

A.break out B.run out C.make out D.work out

17、—Bob has gone to Shanghai.

—Oh, can you tell me when he_________?

A．has left

B．left

C．is leaving

D．would leaving

18、The young lady, ________ several attempts to fix her cell phone, decided to have another try.

A. making   B. to have made

C. having made   D. made

19、________colorful charts and graphs, he loaded a new software to help him.

A. Create   B. Created

C. Creating   D. To create

20、— Why didn’t you tell him about the meeting?

— He rushed out of the room _____ I could say a word.

A. when   B. after C. before D. until

21、Growing up, I understood one thing about my dad: He knew everything. This was our relationship, in sum: I asked him questions and he told me the answers. When I moved out on my own, I called him at least once a week, usually when something broke in my apartment and I needed to know how to fix it: the toilet, the air-conditioning…

But then, eventually, I needed him less. I got married, and my husband had most of the knowledge I lacked about water heaters and nondestructive insect removal. For everything else, we had the Internet. I don’t know when it happened, but our conversations when I called declined to six words. Me: “Hi, Dad.” Him: “Hi, sweets. Here’s Mom.” I loved my dad, of course, but I wondered at times if maybe he had already shared everything I needed to know.

Then, this past summer, my husband, our four kids, and I moved in with my parents for three weeks while our house was being repaired. They own a lake house, and Dad asked me to help him rebuild the bulkhead at their dock (码头的舱壁). It was hard labor. But as we put the new bulkhead together piece by piece, my dad knowing exactly what went where, I looked at him. “How do you know how to build a bulkhead?”

The heavy mallet (木槌) he was swinging paused in midair. “I spent a summer in college building them on the Jersey Shore.” “You did?” I thought I knew everything about my dad—all his random jobs. I knew about the apple farm, the summer at the hot sauce manufacturing plant, and even the diner line-cook position, where he learned how to make the best omelet in the world. But I never knew this.

“Yep. Now let me teach you how to use this saw.”

As he explained the importance of not bending too low, I realized that maybe it’s not that there’s nothing left to say. Maybe it’s just that I’ve spent my life asking him the wrong questions.

A few weeks later, after my family and I moved back into our renovated house, I called my parents. Dad answered. “Hi, sweets,” he said. “Here’s Mom.” “Wait, Dad,” I said. “How are you?” We ended up talking about the consulting job he was working on, a new battery he’d bought for his sailboat, a refinance my husband and I were looking into to relieve our home loan. Nothing life-changing. To anyone else, it would sound like a normal conversation between a dad and his daughter.

But to me, it was novel. A new beginning. I spent the first part of my life needing to talk to my dad. Now I talk to him because I want to.

【1】Why did the author’s conversations with her dad become shorter over time?

A．She got married and didn’t have time to talk.

B．Her dad became less talkative as he got older.

C．She realized that her dad didn’t know everything.

D．She felt that she needed less help from her father.

【2】What did the author find while living with her parents this past summer?

A．Her father was quite talkative.

B．Her father was keen on making things by himself.

C．She didn’t know as much about her father as she had thought.

D．She didn’t notice her father was aged and needed her assistance.

【3】Why did the author call her dad after she moved back into her renovated house?

A．To learn more about her father’s past experiences.

B．To catch up and try to have a normal conversation.

C．To ask for help with more household repairing tips.

D．To thank him for letting her and her family stay with him.

【4】Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A．DIY with my dad: Learning to be independent

B．From fixing toilets to building bulkheads: Changing my lifestyle

C．Reconnecting with my father: A lesson in asking the right questions

D．Lessons in self-sufficiency: How Google replaced my dad’s knowledge

22、For the majority of people, watching movies is their favorite pastime. Even for the deaf, subtitles make it possible for them to enjoy movies. But what about deaf children who can’t read yet, or whose reading isn’t fast enough to keep up with subtitles?

Mariella Satow, 17, a senior student, ran into these questions and spent over a year developing SignUp to solve them. SignUp, launched in August, is a free-of-charge Google Chrome Extension that provides American Sign Language (ASL) captioning over videos on streaming service Disney Plus. It puts a small box with a sign language interpreter in the corner of the screen while the movie plays.

Satow has been stuck in New York, US, since March 2020 because of COVID-19 travel restrictions. During the COVID-19 lockdown, Satow decided to learn a new language, specifically ASL. “Normally, I learn languages by watching television shows with captions, but I found nothing similar for ASL,” Satow said in her profile on SignUp’s website.

Realizing that some deaf children would come across the problem, Satow took action. Using her $ 3, 000, she made from part-time job during the pandemic, Satow employed an India-based company Softpulse Infotech to help her devise a coding system that could overlay ASL interpretation on streaming platforms. As of Nov 12, the extension has provided on-screen ASL interpretation for nine movies such as Moana. Satow has received positive reactions from parents and teachers.

“We watched Moana. My 6-year-old daughter’s smile face was priceless. She loved it. It was the first time she’s had full access to a movie. Thank you!” a user commented below on SigmUp’s Twitter account. Satow also revealed that some teachers would use the extension in their classrooms and arrange movie nights for their students.

“My hope is we’ll have a lot more movies interpreted,” she said. “I’m hoping to expand to a more adult audience and to other countries to make it as big as possible.” “We are very proud of her drive, vision and most importantly her commitment to service,” said Gareth, head of Rugby School.

【1】How does SignUp serve the deaf children to watch movies?

A．By captioning over videos.

B．By offering a live interpreter.

C．By watching gesture translation.

D．By reading subtitles on the screen.

【2】What do parents and teachers think of SignUp?

A．It is very interesting.

B．It benefits deaf children a lot.

C．It could be used in more areas.

D．It should include more functions.

【3】What does the underlined word “devise” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Arrange.

B．Design.

C．Perfect.

D．Experience.

【4】What can we learn from Satow’s story?

A．Two heads are better than one.

B．Love breaks down barriers.

C．Education is the key to success.

D．Success requires 100% commitment.

23、Jose Alberto Gutierrez's life would never be the same again after finding a copy of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy in the garbage 20 years ago. It happened while he was driving his garbage truck through wealthier neighborhoods at night and seeing deserted books. It sparked his desire to start rescuing books from the garbage. He took home between 50 and 60 books every morning after his nine-hour shift. Eventually, he turned his book collection into a community library.

Colombia’s capital city of Bogota has 13 million residents and 19 public libraries. However, these libraries tend to be far away from where rural and poorer communities live. The option of buying new books is non-existent for families struggling to make ends meet. Having access to a library of books and being taken away to another world while immersed in a book is a luxury for the kids who visit Gutierrez's library.

Gutierrez grew up poor, and his family could not afford to educate him beyond primary school. Nevertheless, his mother was a keen reader and read stories to him every night. Her love for books left a deep impression on Gutierrez, who never let a lack of formal education stop him from reading classics by the likes of Victor Hugo, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Today, his community library, called “The Strength of Words“, occupies most of his home and is piled from floor to ceiling with fiction and non-fiction titles. Everything from school textbooks to story books can be found in his collection of more than 20,000 books!

The Strength of Words library opens every weekend. It is not just school-going children who are enjoying the benefits of   The Strength of Words library. Adults are also welcome to expand their horizons and develop new skills to build a better life for themselves.

Despite having done so much for his community, Gutierrez is not yet content to call it a day. He continues to search through bins for reading material and has even travelled to book fairs in Mexico and Chile to sell his idea of building library from unwanted books.

【1】What inspired Gutierrez to build the community library?

A．The dilemma he faced on the night shift.

B．The hobby he has started since childhood.

C．Famous novelists he liked very much.

D．Abandoned books he came across at work.

【2】What can we learn about Gutierrez's mother?

A．She was born into a poor family.

B．She bought Gutierrez many books.

C．She influenced Gutierrez greatly.

D．She enjoyed reading Hugo’s works.

【3】What does the underlined phrase “call it a day” in the last paragraph mean?

A．Take the time.

B．Stop the work.

C．Make a change.

D．Receive a reward.

【4】What does Gutierrez's story tell us?

A．A book holds a house of gold.

B．Constant dropping wears the stone.

C．Good things come to those who wait.

D．One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

24、   Audiences may be ready to return. Will they have anything to watch? It is turning out to be a long pause.

Cinemas across the West closed in March and, despite attempts to reopen in the summer, the box office has not recovered. From October 9th Cineworld, the world's second-largest chain, will temporarily shut its 536 Regal theaters in America and its 127 British ones. AMC, the biggest, will cut the opening hours at some Odeon cinemas in Britain.

Early in the pandemic the problem was audiences. In March Disney's "Onward" closed as people refused to breathe the air with a crowd of strangers. Business got harder when governments ordered theaters to shut.

As countries have cased （解除）restrictions and audiences prepared to return, cinemas are finding little to show them. In China, where Covid-19 seems under control, studios have resumed pumping out hits. But Hollywood will not risk premiering （首映）costly blockbusters （大片）while many markets, including New York and California, remain closed, and cinema-goers cautious. Most big titles have been postponed.

Nine months without income would be disastrous （灾难性的）.America's National Association of Theatre Owners predicts that seven out of ten small or medium-sized cinema companies will go bust （破产）,which it has urged Congress to approve.

Both AMC and Cineworld are likely to stop a contract or file for going bust, believes Moody's, a ratings agency; AMC could run out of cash by January. Share prices of Western operators have dropped sharply this year, and are now worth a fifth as much as five years ago. Chinese ones have done better.

【1】Which company will reduce the opening hours in Britain?

A．Cineworld.

B．Odeon.

C．AMC.

D．Hollywood.

【2】What makes the cinema business get harder?

A．Government's restriction.

B．Films' attraction.

C．Audience's attitude.

D．Operators, signing contracts.

【3】What is the situation in Hollywood?

A．They are applying for going bust.

B．They are complained by the audiences.

C．They will offer the audience more big titles.

D．They put off premiering most big blockbusters.

【4】What does the text mainly talk about?

A．A few famous film companies.

B．Covid-19's effect on the cinemas.

C．The global economic situation.

D．Audience's desiring for films.

25、Rediscovery

I used to be a happy child with a loving family and many friends. I had a ______ that could brighten a cold winter day and I had a special love for life.

At twelve, my life had a huge breakdown. It was then that I _____ OCD (强迫症). I started to wash my hands ten times an hour, and I constantly ______ my kitchen oven to make sure that it was off. This way of lifecontinued for four painful years, and by then, my OCD had led to depression (抑郁). I was no longer the ______ little girl I had been.

In the tenth grade I finally ____ to my mother that I was suffering from depression along with my OCD. My mom took me to a doctor and I started taking _____. Over a few months, the medicine did help the OCD, but I still was struggling with depression.

One autumn evening, I hit rock bottom. I thought suicide (自杀) was the only _____to my depression problem, so I decided to write a suicide note. As I was ______ it, my eyes fell on a photo. It was a ______ of an adorable little girl, wearing her red soccer uniform and holding a bike helmet. She had a bright smile that showed she was full of life.

It took me a few minutes to______who the girl in the photo was. The photo had been taken when I was seven years old. I almost couldn’t believe that smiling child was me. I felt a chill go down my spine (脊柱). It was like my younger self had sent me a ______. Right then and there I knew I couldn’t kill myself. Once I had been a strong little girl, and I had to become ____ like that again.

I tore up my suicide note and _____ that I would not rely only on my medicine. I would have to fight the depression with my mind, too. I could make myself happy again.

It has been two years since I _____ myself. The real reason I am healed is that I took action and refused to let depression ______my life. I learned a lifelong _____: Never give up. Everyone has challenges in life, but everyone can _____. I am living proof of that.

Now I am prepared for whatever _____ life may bring. I have a role model to ______up to for strength, and who is guiding me ______ life. My hero is a seven-year-old girl, smiling back at me from a photo on my desk.

【1】A. dream B. thought C. hope D. smile

【2】A. prevented B. treated C. developed D. discovered

【3】A. checked B. fixed C. touched D. tested

【4】A. pretty B. happy C. popular D. lovely

【5】A. admitted B. suggested C. showed D. replied

【6】A. classes B. medicine C. exercise D. notes

【7】A. response B. door C. entrance D. solution

【8】A. posting B. copying C. finishing D. revising

【9】A. picture B. figure C. model D. shadow

【10】A. explain B. realize C. question D. describe

【11】A. gift B. card C. message D. letter

【12】A. open B. strong C. lively D. athletic

【13】A. advised B. doubted C. promised D. imagined

【14】A. rejected B. replaced C. recalled D. rediscovered

【15】A. risk B. abandon C. ruin D. waste

【16】A. lesson B. skill C. class D. experience

【17】A. escape B. quit C. recover D. survive

【18】A. adventures B. benefits C. opportunities D. challenges

【19】A. come B. look C. make D. add

【20】A. through B. over C. across D. from

26、请阅读下面文字, 并按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。

“The National College Entrance Examination will be postponed for a month to July 7 and 8 due to the novel coronavirus outbreak,” the Ministry of Education said.

Wang Hui, director of the ministry’s Department of College Students Affairs, said the postponement is mainly to ensure students’ safety and the fairness of the exam. More than 10.7 million students have signed up to participate in this year’s Gaokao, up by 400,000 from last year, Wang said at a news conference.

“Gaokao concerns tens of millions of students, and the ministry must adopt the most cautious plan with the least amount of risk to protect their safety as well as that of the teachers.”

Although senior high school students took online courses during the epidemic, many rural students who lacked Internet access felt disadvantaged, so the delay is to ensure they will have more time to prepare for the exam at school, he said.

Chinese people often compare the highly competitive exam to “crossing a narrow bridge”, since for many students, especially those from rural areas, enrollment at a good university is a difficult but worthwhile challenge that could shape their future.

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(1)结合上述信息，分析高考延期的主要原因(不少于两点)；

(2)面对高考延期，作为高三学生，你应该如何正确应对？

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